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Role-playing games and how to do them better.

Location:

United States

Description:

Role-playing games and how to do them better.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Picaresque With Tentacles

4/30/2024
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider our experiences with Enemy in Shadows, the first part of the classic Warhammer campaign, and look at the second edition of Reign.

Duration:01:08:18

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The City is Like a Woman, and She Wants Her Alimony-

3/31/2024
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider system choice and system mastery, and look at Mike's new Blades in the Dark campaign.

Duration:01:12:39

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Slug Stores

2/29/2024
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems.

Duration:01:31:22

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My Sex Life is Cosmically Important

1/31/2024
Download This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters.

Duration:01:08:15

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James Wallis Burned My Boat

12/31/2023
Download This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs.

Duration:01:01:31

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A Mad Career Towards Some Dreadful Ending

11/30/2023
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign.

Duration:01:01:16

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Quite Gnostic In Places

10/31/2023
Download This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose Traveller and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it.

Duration:01:15:19

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Character Description Language

9/30/2023
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters.

Duration:00:55:19

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As Long As They're Not Nibbling On Your Leg

8/31/2023
Download This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once.

Duration:01:23:22

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Weakly Godlike

7/31/2023
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?).

Duration:01:14:56

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Something John Dee Whipped Up

6/30/2023
Download This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be).

Duration:01:14:02

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The Friends You Leave In Shallow Graves

5/31/2023
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism.

Duration:01:08:56

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A Strong Antinomian Tendency

4/30/2023
Download This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Roger’s masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two.

Duration:01:02:13

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Unresolved Rage About Billy Bunter

3/31/2023
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories.

Duration:01:14:22

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Determinedly Cheerful Or Just Obtuse

2/28/2023
Download This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group.

Duration:01:25:13

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Pretentious? Moi?

1/31/2023
Download This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life.

Duration:01:12:03

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Idioculture

12/31/2022
Download This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an almost-historical setting.

Duration:01:09:55

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You Could See Coronation Street From There

11/30/2022
Download It's our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other.

Duration:01:34:46

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Too Busy Starving to Have a Civil War

10/31/2022
Download This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard.

Duration:00:59:21

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Investing in a Plausible Scotsman

9/30/2022
Download This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency.

Duration:01:21:06